CBS has the video of the entire Tenet interview up on their website, including extensive transcripts.
When asked about the leak of Valerie Plame's employment at the CIA, Tenet was clearly angry.
"She's one of my officers. That's wrong. Big time wrong, you don't get to do that," Tenet says. "And the chilling effect that you have inside my work force is, 'Whoa, now officers names are being thrown out the door. Hold it. Not right.'"
Asked how much damage that did, Tenet says, "That's not the point. Just because there's a Washington bloodletting game going on here and just because her husband's out there saying what he's saying. The country's intelligence officers are not fair game. Period. That's all you need to know."
"They didn't seem to know that in the White House," Pelley remarks.
"I'm done with it. I've just told you what I think," Tenet says.
CBS 60 Minutes 4/29/07
Tenet's Role in the Plame Investigation
It was initially reported in the 9/28/03 WaPo that the Justice Department's investigation into the leak was at Tenet's request, however the WaPo published a different account one week later on 10/05/03 and the NYT still another.
At CIA Director George J. Tenet's request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said yesterday
WaPo 9/28/03
sources close to Tenet say the director himself was not responsible for initiating the leak investigation
WaPo 10/5/03
But Mr. Tenet was aware of the Novak column, and was not pleased, the C.I.A. official said. As required by law, the agency notified the Justice Department in late July that there had been a release of classified information; it is a felony for any official with access to such information to disclose the identity of a covert American officer. It is unclear when Mr. Tenet became aware of the referral, but when he did, he supported it, the C.I.A. official said, even though it was clearly going to cause problems for the White House. ''I don't think he lost any sleep over it,'' the official said.
NYT 10/5/03
The origins of the DOJ investigation are detailed in a CIA letter dated 1/30/04. The letter from the CIA was in response to a letter from Conyers dated 9/29/03.
By letter dated 16 September 2003 and in accordance with standard practice, the CIA informed DOJ that the Agency's investigation into this matter was complete, provided DOJ a memorandum setting forth the results of the investigation, and requested that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) undertake a criminal investigation of this matter. In a 29 September 2003 letter, DOJ advised that the Counterespionage Division of DOJ had requested that the FBI initiate an investigation of this matter.
CIA Letter 1/30/04
The House Judiciary website removed this letter when the Democrats regained the majority. This was the link.
house.gov/judiciary_democrats/cialeakinforesp13004.pdf
The Sixteen Words
Tenet released a statement on the evening of 7/11/03 in response to Wilson's 7/6/03 New York Times op-ed. In his statement Tenet assumes responsibility for the inclusion of the "sixteen words" the the 2003 State of the Union Address delivered on January 28, 2003.
First, CIA approved the PresidentÂ’s State of the Union address before it was delivered. Second, I am responsible for the approval process in my Agency. And third, the President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound. These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the President.
Tenet Statement 7/11/03
Two days later, The CIA had a very different story out in the 7/13/03 WaPo article by Pincus entitled " CIA Got Uranium Reference Cut in Oct"
Tenet argued personally to White House officials, including deputy national security adviser Stephen Hadley, that the allegation should not be used [In a October 2002 speech] because it came from only a single source, according to one senior official.
WaPo 7/13/03
On 7/22/03 Barlett and Hadley admitted the White House had received memos showing Tenet had personally told the White House to remove the Niger claims from the earlier October 2002 speech.
The latest turn came Tuesday, when deputy national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley and White House communications director Dan Bartlett revealed the existence of two previously unknown memos showing that Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet had repeatedly urged the administration last October to remove a similar claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa.
WaPo 7/24/03
Tenet never read the speech
"I didn't read the speech. I was involved in a bunch of other things," Tenet says.
"Wait a minute, the president’s State of the Union," Pelley remarks. "You didn't read that?"
"Right, I didn’t, farmed it out, got it at a principal's meeting, brought it down the hall, handed it to my executive assistant. I said, 'You guys go review this, and come back to me if I need to do anything,'" Tenet remembers.
"Nobody comes back to you?" Pelley asks.
"And therein lies why I ultimately have to take my share of responsibility," Tenet says.
CBS 60 Minutes 4/29/07
Tenet's book regarding the Air Force One trip / Leak Week
In this article about Tenet's book in the Washington Post, the "lively debate" described on AF1 by Powell likely occured during leak week July 7, 2003 - July 12, 2003. This is the week when Libby told Fleischer, Armitage told Novak, Rove confirmed for Novak and told Cooper, and Fleischer told Pincus.
The INR memo (the source of the information regarding Plame's CIA employment) was on board AF1 during this trip and was a topic of conversation among senior WH officials according to Fleischer.
He describes an episode in 2003, shortly after he issued a statement taking partial responsibility for that error. He said he was invited over for a Sunday afternoon, back-patio lemonade by Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state. Mr. Powell described what Mr. Tenet called "a lively debate" on Air Force One a few days before about whether the White House should continue to support Mr. Tenet as C.I.A. director.
"In the end, the president said yes, and said so publicly," Mr. Tenet wrote. "But Colin let me know that other officials, particularly the vice president, had quite another view."
WaPo 4/27/07
Tenet's Resignation
Tenet's resignation was unexpected.
"Bush Consults Lawyer About CIA Name Leak"
WAPO Thursday, June 3, 2004
"CIA Director Tenet Resigns"
WAPO Thursday, June 3, 2004
"Cheney Said Questioned On CIA Leak"
CBS Saturday, July 5, 2004